The Touching Reason This Teen's Adoption Photos Are Going Viral

While the rest of the country was busy electing a new president, the Scudder family of California was adding two new members to their clan.

Autumn Scudder and her husband, who were already parents to three teenage girls, had been wanting to expand their family but couldn't do so naturally because of health complications, according to Buzzfeed.

So last year, when the Scudders learned that a little girl named Veronica, now 3, and her baby brother, Preston, now 1, were in foster care and needed a forever family, there response was an "empathetic yes" without hesitation, Autumn told Buzzfeed. "I had always wished we had been able to have a son, too," she said.

The adoption was finalized on Nov. 8, 2016, and it turns out it was just the sort of positive news that America needed. When Autumn's daughter, Kylie, tweeted photos from the occasion, which included images of the kids holding signs explaining how long they had waited for the joyous union, the internet went wild.

The photos were shared on Reddit and Imgur, and the original tweet has received more than 40,000 likes.

"People are loving that such a beautiful moment was captured on the same day that a lot of Americans were stressed about the direction of the country, and with all the negativity in the media," Autumn said.

She told Buzzfeed she hopes the media and internet attention will inspire other families to look into adoption or fostering.

"If everyone did one (or more) of these things, we would have a lot of kids in the world that live a little bit happier life, and they grow up to be adults that have a little bit happier story to tell," she added.